Sectional check or ticket.



/NVENTOH ATOH/VEY PATENTED MAY 23, 1905. P. J. MENAHAN. SBCTIONAL GHBGK 0R TICKET.

PPLIOATION FILED 5.23.10. 1903.

Patented May 23, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK J. MENAHAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.V

sECTloNAL CHECK on TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,515, dated May 23, 1905.

Application filed April 10, 1903. Serial No. 151,940.

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, PATRICK J. MENAHAN, a cltizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and Improved Sectional Check or Ticket, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement is intendedv to facilitate the manufacture of portable articles which require to be treated. It compels their treatment at the several stages by a number of different persons or teamsin a predetermined order.` A long rectangular piece of suificientl y tough fabric is printed or otherwise provided with an identifying heading and a succession of appended coupons arranged in order the reverse of the order of their use.V Each coupon is composed of a horizontal strip extending the whole breadth of the material to be divided by a vertical cut at the middle. Designating-marks, which I will describe as numbers, printed in corresponding inverted order extend consecutively from the bottom upwards Such will be shown as on Vthe right and left edges. The coupons, carrying each a corresponding number-on each end, are detached successively in the -prescribed order by the several operatives as each dozen receives her contribution of labor and passes from her 'hands. The tickets are in halves, one the reverse of the other. The operative on completing her part on leach dozen of the garments and passing it to the next operative removes the proper coupon extending across the whole breadth with the distinguishing number or mark on each edge. She then divides it and drops one-half in a box to be immediately carried to the oiiice. The other half, which is in all respects a counterpart, is retained by the operative and presented at a later period to collect her pay therefor. Other columns of figures or other marks additional to consecutive numbers on thefedges carry each corresponding marks, all alike in each column, which indicate the style and other peculiarities aiding to identify the goods.

I have in my experiments applied the invention to the manufacture of corsets, in which there are forty-ve steps taken by as many different hands or teams in succession, the

payments for some of which vary widely with the nature of the work performed and the style of the goods treated. In this business a dozen corsets constitute the unit. After a dozenis commenced no -stop ispermissible until it is completed. My ticket takes cognizance of each step taken with each dozen. One of my long strips, which I will refer to as tickets, is stitched or otherwise reliably but detachably secured to each dozen at the first stage of its progress, which may be the cutting, and the last instalment or coupon, with the printed head by which it had been attached, is removed by the person who takes the last step, which may be theboxing.

The following is a description of whatI consider the best means of carrying out the invention. v

'The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a face -view of an entire ticket as it is given out to the first working party, with a portion broken away to reduce the length. Fig. 2 is a face view of one coupon detached and separated into two corresponding parts; and Fig. 3 is a back view ofthe same', showing onlyl a number written on it with pen or pencil to distinguish the operative who performed the work at the stage indicated by that coupon.

Similar-letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where they appear.

A' A2 indicate a narrow strip extending continuously across the base of the check, B' B2 the strip next above, C O2 the third, and so on up vto a line near the upper end ofthe strip.

, A short length above remains attached and is utilized to identify the factory, &c. Each strip may be defined by a line,preferably weakened, as well as made visible to the eye, extending nearly across the ticket. A thin line extends up and down the center of the working part and indicates thev place of divison between the portion of each coupon which is to be kept by the operative and the other corresponding part of the coupon which is to 'be dropped in the box and sent to the office. rIhese coupons are numbered from the bottom upward, the numbers being duplicated on the IOO two edgese-that is to say, the lowest coupon is numbered 1 on each edge, the next above is numbered 2, and so on up to the last. Work is done on corsets by forty-five successive parties. The lower coupons are l 2 3, and the last coupons at the top are 42, 43, 44, and 45.

It is not important to distinguish between the successive dozens in a lot; but I provide for distinguishing between each lot and the next. Columns are extended up and down the check between the edge figures which have been described, which are each uniform all the way up and down to distinguish this ticket from otherswthat is to say, in the example given each half of each coupon carries in one column `,the number 52. This is the number which indicates a certain style. The next column shows the single number l on each coupon. This indicates some other important quality, as the lot. There may be as many of these columns as required. As shown, there is only one more column, in which the figures E l 81 are printed, indicating the number given to this lot in the stock-book.

In the manufacture of these cheeks I have had the material eut to the proper size and form and have had the heading printed and also the edge columns by power printing machinery at the stationers. The intermediate columns, which require frequent changing, I

have printed by a press in the factory. It requires only a small development of the printers skill to set the types for these several coupons and taking care to space so that they will register exactly with the several coupons, to print the proper number of the checks for each lot and place them in the hands of the party who does the first step of the work and have her attach them successively to the several dozens before they leave her bench. As fast as the several dozens reach the last stage of their treatment one part of the duty of the operative who takes this last step is to remove and-preserve the heading with the uppermost of the coupons attached.

Each of the forty-five girls successively finds the long ticket with the coupon at the lower end bearing the number corresponding to her work. As soon as she has performed the work on that dozen she in her turn removes the lowest coupons and passes the ticket thus further mutilated to the next. Then she immediately writes a number, which, being shorter than her name, has been previously recorded in the ofce to designate her, on the back of each half of the coupon, separates the coupons, and thrusts one through a narrow aperture into a box to be carried at short intervals to the office, where they will indicate the progress of the work and serve as a check to prevent frauds or mistakes in the subsequent payments. rIhe other half she carefully preserves to be presented at some later period and paid for.

- I use the term corset to mean any article being manufactured which is capable of being transferred from one operative to another in succession.

When a temporary or permanent reduction of the business or other cause shall make it expedient for one girl or team of girls to do two or more consecutive steps of the work, a corresponding number of the coupons maybe cut off and numbered on the back and subsequently used as I have described for a single one. In such case, as in the others, the ticket is certain to be separated quite across by each of the parties working on it, so the order of succession must be uniform.

Modifications may be made without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the invention. The number of columns may be varied. Letters or other devices,even words, may be used instead of numbers in some cases; but as it is essential that the saine appears on every coupon, so that the successive coupons from any given ticket difier only in the inverted succession of numbers 5, 6, 7, &c., it is essential that the marks to indicate the style and other distinctions shall be very short. It is essential that the attaching-point be the top and that the several coupons extend each continously across the ticket, so that the order of succession is certain.

Additions may be made. I can use a greater or less number of columns. l can distinguish by colors and various other means,either uniform or in stripes, between different parts of' a lot, taking care to have the same distinctions run each through the whole series of coupons. vDifferent sizes of corsets or other goods may be distinguished. A test of the invention in a large corset manufactory continued several months has developed no reason for requiring any additions. lVhen the object is simply to indicate the pay due to the several operatives, it is significant that in corset-work the pay is the same for the difierent sizes, so there is no need of distinguishing them.

I claim as my invention 1. A ticket having a string of coupons in pairs, and being characterized by each of the following features, namely: first, by having the coupons of each pair arranged end to end transversely of the ticket with reference to each other and side by side longitudinally of the ticket with reference to the coupons of adjacent pairs; second, by having between the edges of the ticket in the transverse space occupied by each pair of coupons only the matter and material appertaining to such pair of coupons, so that a pair of coupons can be taken offI together by a single cut entirely across the ticket without mutilating the rest of the ticket; third, by having on each pair of coupons marks which are common to the coupons of such pair while differentiating them from coupons of other pairs and also other marks IOO lIO

` the coupons of each pair arranged end to end transversely of the ticket `with reference to each other and side by side longitudinally of the ticket with reference to thev coupons of adjacent pairs; second, by having between the edges of the ticket in the transverse space occupied by each pair of coupons only the matter and material appertaining to such pair of coupons, so lthat a pair of coupons can be taken off together by 'a single cut entirely across the ticket without mutilatin g the rest of the ticket; third, by having on each pair of coupons marks which are common to the couponsof such pair while differentiating them from coupons of other pairs and also three other marks which are common to all the pairs and extend in three parallel columns down each half of the ticket; and, fourth, by having the ticket as a whole devoid of mattei' inconsistent with the service of the last-mentioned marks as indicators in different respects of the goods referred to by the ticket as those of one column on each half of the ticket to show the kind of goods, thoseof another the quantity thereof, and those of a third to give additional information touching the same, substantially as described.

3. vA ticket having a string of coupons in pairs, and being characterized by each of the following features, namely: first, by having the coupons of cach pair arranged end to end transversely of the ticket with referencefto each other and side by side longitudinally of the ticket with reference to the coupons of adjacent pairs; second, by having between the edges of the ticket in the transverse space 'occupied by each pair of coupons only the matter and material appertaining to such pair of coupons, so that a pair of coupons can be taken olf together by a single cut entirely across the ticket without mutilating the rest of the ticket; third, by having on each pair of coupons markings whereby they are distinguished from each other as well as marks which are common to the coupons of such pair while differentiating them from coupons ofother pairs and also other marks which are common to all the pairs and extend in columns down the ticket; and, fourth, by having the ticket as a whole devoid of matter inconsistent with the service of the last-mentioned marks-as-indicat'ors on each coupon of the each other and side by side longitudinally of.

the ticket with reference to the coupons-of adjacent pairs; second, by having the coupons of each pair distinguished from each other by the markings thereon; third, by having on each pair of coupons marks which are cornmon to the coupons of such pair While differentiating them. from coupons of other pairs and also other marks which are common to all the pairs and extend in columns down the ticket; and, fourth, by having the ticket as a whole devoid of matter inconsistent with the service of the last-mentioned marks as indicators on each Acoupon of the goods referred to by the ticket, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PATRICK J. MENAHAN.

Witnesses:

JAMEs GAsooIN, CHAUNGEY G. CozIN. 

